About U.S. PIRG
The state PIRGs created
the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) in 1983 to act as watchdog
for the public interest in our nation's capital, as much as PIRGs
have worked to safeguard the public interest in state capitals since
1971.
Our organization's
roots at the state level, and U.S. PIRG members
across the country, give us a unique "outside the beltway" perspective
and provide the grassroots power necessary to influence the national policy
debate.
Mission
U.S. PIRG speaks for the
public interest against the special interests, on issues in the news and below
the surface. When consumers are victims of private greed, U.S. PIRG is
there; when average citizens suffer from the absence of government attention
or an excess of government bureaucracy, U.S. PIRG is there; when our natural
environment is threatened, U.S. PIRG is there. As a public interest watchdog
organization, we uncover dangers to public health and wellbeing and fight to
end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposes,
grassroots organizing, advocacy, and litigation. We deliver persistent,
result-oriented public interest activism to achieve real change that improves
the quality of our environment, of our government, and of individual lives.
